“Typological hybridization” is the central theme characterizing this challenge. On one hand, the design completes the historic constructing facade of the road on the piazza, reinterpreting conventional components of the standard structure within the historic heart of Albino. However, the internal courtyard transforms right into a villa with a backyard, creating a novel mix of private and non-private areas. Albino is a small city the place everybody is aware of one another. Many instances, now we have mentioned with our shoppers the great thing about dwelling on the piazza, strolling out to fulfill associates, and having espresso on the nook bar. Equally interesting is the thought of being remoted and guarded in a villa that opens onto a non-public internal backyard, the place one can dine beneath the portico and stroll barefoot on the grass.
Piazza San Giuliano is the principle sq. of the city, with the church of the identical title in entrance and the 14th-century church of San Bartolomeo adjoining to the brand new constructing. The latter options quite a few Sixteenth-century frescoes by Moroni, including to the historic appeal of the realm. To totally recognize this typological variation and transformation, one should enter the constructing, transferring from the city and public house of the piazza to the intimate and personal house of the backyard. Passing by way of the vaulted passageway, one transitions from the plastered exterior facade, which arranges openings in a classy rhythm, to the aspect fully lined in Ceppo di Grè. This stone, typical of contemporary Milan and quarried not removed from right here, serves as a consultant filter the place the home entrance is situated. Turning to entry the backyard, one can recognize the portico and uncover the home side of this a part of the constructing.
The challenge doesn’t consist solely of the principle three-story condominium, which largely faces inward. The constructing additionally accommodates a second, smaller two-story condominium overlooking the piazza, including to the complexity and performance of the house. One other vital theme of this challenge is the articulation of areas and inside volumes. The three flooring overlook a form of full-height courtyard, the place the varied areas of the home open. This sought-after vertical spatiality floods all of the underlying interiors with mild and connects the areas and folks dwelling in the home. Vertical mild contrasts with horizontal views that traverse the house and pierce the massive sloping roof, forming the portico on the bottom flooring and the varied terraces on the higher flooring. The fabric palette is equally subtle and numerous, each for the exteriors and interiors. Pure stones equivalent to ceppo, basaltina, and invisible veined stones alternate with pure oak and black-stained elm wooden, culminating in uncooked waxed iron and coloured mirrors.
The inside and furnishings design was fairly difficult, aiming to create a classy and consultant but calm and stress-free home house. One of the vital components is the fluted oak paneling that covers a whole aspect of the triple-height courtyard. Many items of furnishings had been custom-designed for this home, and others had been designed by our studio for main Italian corporations equivalent to B&B Italia, Alias, Porro, and Fontana Arte. This challenge was an vital alternative for our studio to focus on its most popular methodology of working concurrently on completely different scales of the challenge. The thought and follow, usually and historically Italian, of being each architects and designers, experimenting with the leap, the continuity and contiguity of scale, transferring from structure to inside design, from furnishings to product design. This strategy requires understanding the size and having the ability to management and interpret it in every of its design facets.
